Extinct Animals List we Will Never See Again — And One That Came Back From The Dead

We have always been interested in extinct animals list that we will never see again. Science studied them closely and followed all the details about it. There are also some who return from the dead.

Extinction may be thought of as something cataclysmic, rare, dinosaur extinction, and the like … but extinction actually happens with worrying frequency.

According to the World Foundation for Nature — a non-governmental organization that fights for the preservation of the animal world — it is estimated that about 10,000 species disappear forever every year.

The World Wide Fund for Nature says, however, that it is difficult to be sure of any absolute numbers, mainly because we do not know how many species there are at first.

Now let’s look at some animals that were once on the rise on this planet. And there are some amazing comebacks:

Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus (Ghana and Ivory Coast)

The Zanzibar Red Colobus is the closest relative of Miss Waldron’s extinct red colobuses, which have not been seen since 1978.

Recent loss — This medium-sized monkey with a red mane is considered extinct since the early 2000s.

Living on the border between Ghana and Ivory Coast, Miss Waldron’s red colobus was an exceptional animal, as it had no thumbs.

This gentle creature accustomed to living in large groups high in the treetops became forced to change its way of life when man began to cut down its natural forest habitat.

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As parts of the forest shrank, red colobus groups became too small, leading to less protection from predators and genetic weakness caused by interbreeding.

Yangtze River Dolphin (China)

Chinese river dolphins are believed to be one of the oldest mammals to live in freshwater

Declared extinct in 2006, the Chinese dolphin from the Yangtze River was a pale, yellowish-green mammal that looked much less smooth and elegant than its more famous cousin.

Its ordinary appearance hid a highly developed echolocation system, much superior to that of other dolphins: it was so finely tuned that it could even identify the positions of individual fish.
Its extreme sensitivity, however, became risky when the river was filled with fishing boats, cargo boats, trawlers, and man-made pollution.

The dolphin from the Yangtze River, confused by so much traffic, had no chance of survival.

Caribbean Polar Bear (Serranilla Island, between Jamaica and Nicaragua)

The seals — not much different from the one in the photo — once lived in the Caribbean

This species of Caribbean seal could once be found in the Gulf of Mexico, on the east coast of Central America, and the northern coast of South America.

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But they are overfished for the oil that can be extracted from their fat while overfishing their food source has hit the surviving animals terribly.

Their numbers dropped to extinction and were last seen in 1952 off the island of Seranilla, between Jamaica and Nicaragua.

Alabama mussels (USA)

River mussels — like those from the Czech Republic — looked like huge shells

This humble mussel lived in the Mobil River, in the state of Alabama, in the United States of America, until about 2006.

Named so because it looked like a pig’s claw, it purified the polluted water of a dirty river — but the levels of pollution had meanwhile become so high that Pigtoe could no longer cope.

The extinction of this simple creature revealed darker truths about the water itself, full of dangerous chemicals from factories that caused deadly diseases in the mostly African-American community that lived next to it.

Dodo (Mauritius)

The dodo has become a symbol of the extinct animal's list, for which people are responsible.

It is an unusual honor to be the most famous extinct bird, but for some reason, the dodo is a long-extinct species that, in addition to dinosaurs, everyone has heard of.

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This non-flying bird with a crazy appearance once lived on the island of Mauritius, without natural predators.

When the people arrived in Mauritius, bringing with them other animals and their appetite for meat, the dodo did not last long.

Steller’s Sea Cow (the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia)

Naturalist Georg Steller observed these fantastic creatures after a shipwreck near the Bering Islands in 1741.

If you had met Steller’s manatee, you would have known about it.

This cousin of manatee is very similar to that gently swollen water creature, except that it is incomparably larger: Steller’s sea cow can grow up to nine meters in length.

Her striking appearance, magnificent skin, and all that valuable fat made her the primary target of hunters — she allegedly tasted like beef marinated in almond oil.

It is thought to have been exterminated by a mixture of hunting and changes in its habitat, shortly after its death.

Quagga (South Africa)

This quagga died at the Amsterdam Zoo on August 12, 1883

The unusual beauty of the poor good quagga was the main reason for its extinction.

This African animal of exceptional appearance had a front half that was striped like a zebra, but those stripes gradually faded on the other half, which was plain and brown like a horse.

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